We’ve seen this before, especially us “Nam Vets as we returned, tens of thousands, and those needing and seeking the care from their service in a war became backlogged, or just plain denied. Many of us veterans were trying to be heard, over the rising drum beat of war, of what was coming especially if invading a country that did absolutely nothing to deserve that invasion and occupation. We were one of those groups politically labeled, by our hired administration, as a ‘focus group’ that they didn’t listen to. But it wasn’t only the administration not listening it was the greater majority of this country, they don’t mind spending billions upon billions upon billions……….. on the war machine and waging war with same, but when the soldiers start returning and the system gets overwhelmed the country doesn’t want to hear anything about that, or if they hear they most certainly don’t want to pay..
Tag: ptsd
Feb 20 2009
“Holding On”
Joy’s original thought was that it was a song for mothers of challenged children, particularly single moms, like her. While in the process of getting the music transcribed on the computer in June of ’07, it occurred to her that it also might appeal to the wives and mothers of veterans returning from war with TBI and PTSD.
Feb 16 2009
“Alone”
Iraq Veteran Going to Washington – KRGV 2.15.09
Reynaldo Leal, Jr. was part of Operation Phantom Fury, taking part in some of the heaviest fighting in Fallujah. For Leal, fighting overseas was like an out of body experience.
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Feb 14 2009
“Coming home”: The Conclusion of Salon.com’s Series
Top row, left to right: Kenneth Eastridge, Ryan Alderman, Adam Lieberman, Robert Marko. Bottom row: John Needham, Kenneth Lehman, Mark Waltz, Chad Barrett.
In the final article in Salon’s series, we ask what President Obama will do about the rise of suicide and murder among U.S. soldiers returning from combat.
This is the conclusion to Salon’s weeklong “Coming Home” series, by Mark Benjamin and Michael de Yoanna, on preventable deaths at Fort Carson. You can read the introduction to the series here.
Feb 13 2009
“That young man never should have come into the Army”
The above subject title is the forth addition in a week long series at Salon.com by Mark Benjamin and Michael de Yoanna on the returned Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan called “Coming Home”. It’s the open window into what happens to some after serving in man’s hell on earth, Wars and Occupations of Choice!
Feb 12 2009
“You’re a p- – -y and a scared little kid”, 3rd Installment of “Coming Home”
The subject title above is the third installment of a week long series of reports being run at Salon.com.
The first two installment reports can be found in links below or with this link of what I posted previously
Feb 10 2009
“The Death Dealers took my life!”
Feb 05 2009
Army: 24 Suspected Suicides in January ’09
This is just being reported,
Army reports alarming rise in suicides last month
There has been a small sprinkling of reports about the Military Suicides in the last couple of months, most of those found only if one is hitting a number of news outlets but not making National News, even as those who serve do so for the Country not a Community located near a base or where their from.
Jan 25 2009
That Feeling of ‘Aliveness’ Combat Veterans Miss Most:
Ilona Meagher, of PTSD Combat: Winning the War Within, shares with us, from her Blogspot, the writings of another blogger, a Combat Veteran, Scott Lee, a Gulf War I Veteran , who writes about his experiances with PTS and returning to civilian life after the military and combat experiances and more.
Jan 10 2009
THE WAR BEHIND ME:
Coming to terms with the reality and the lessons ignored for far too long, which ultimately by ignoring led us into the Deja-Vu of invasion and long term occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and the failed leadership exposed!
Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth About U.S. War Crimes
Inside, the book, the Army’s Secret Archive of Investigations.
Atrocities, on all sides, are only a part of the story of the Tragedy of War and Occupation.
The rest we are once again observing and those serving and sacrificing in these theaters are living, along with their families.
Jan 04 2009
Veterans of george’s War Want a Bailout
The following is a Twofur of Information:
392,000 Pending Appeals to VA for Help
It’s not easy to get the runaround when you have a traumatic brain injury from george’s war.
Did You Know 200,000 Vets Are Sleeping on the Streets?
America’s promise to “Support the Troops” ends the moment they take off the uniform and try to make the transition to civilian life.
Demand O’Reilly apologize to the “non-existent” homeless vets he attacked ?
Dec 28 2008
Washington Times-PTSD-Treatments
While we’ll take Any In Depth Reports about what already should have been common knowledge on Post Traumatic Stress I do have just a couple of minor irritations with an otherwise Stellar Report on the Treatments for PTSD in the Washington Times edition today. let me get them out of the way.
The report, called VA grapples with veterans’ mental traumas, is a six page writeup of which one Audrey Hudson deserves alot of credit for reporting and apparently has done a few others this year as the previous link would show.
It starts out with the following: